Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 222)

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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB66

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
3/21/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Chaptered
7/3/25  
Establishes procedures and requirements for single-family and multi-family housing project applicants to apply for an expedited permit, including requirements for completeness of expedited permit applications, duties of licensed professionals and the counties during construction, and applications for owner-builder exemptions. Takes effect 7/1/2026. Sunsets 6/30/2031. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB80

Introduced
1/15/25  
Establishes the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Program. Repeals the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Pilot Program. Clarifies that the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation may utilize funds in the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund for the purchase of equity in for-sale housing development projects and interim primary or secondary financing.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB50

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Establishes as a deceptive practice advertising, displaying, or offering a price for goods or services that does not include all mandatory fees or charges, subject to certain exceptions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB8

Introduced
1/16/25  
Short form bill relating to environment.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB5

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Establishes that if a state legislative vacancy occurs due to the death or permanent incapacitation of the prior incumbent before a primary election, but after the close of filing for that election, and the prior incumbent was the only person whose name appeared on any ballot for that seat for that election, the Governor's appointment of a replacement shall be valid for both the unexpired term and the next succeeding term. Effective 1/1/2525. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB28

Introduced
1/15/25  
Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB71

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Establishes the Mixed-Income Subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that targets workforce rental housing projects for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income. Authorizes the Director of Finance to transfer funds from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund into the Mixed-Income Subaccount. Appropriates funds into and out of the Mixed-Income Subaccount of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB2

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Establishes a two-year Fruit Tree Harvest Pilot Program. Requires state agencies, to the extent practicable, to plant fruit trees in new or renovated landscaping that includes trees within the boundaries of the program. Authorizes persons to harvest fruit from those fruit trees. Provides that the State is not liable for any injuries or illnesses resulting from the harvesting or ingesting of fruit, including food-borne illness. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 1/1/2491. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB56

Introduced
1/15/25  
Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish and operate a Child Care Center Pilot Program on Oahu for eligible children of state employees, one in or near the state capitol and one in Kapolei. Appropriates funds. Repeals on 6/30/2030.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2

Introduced
1/16/25  
Provides that the Liquor Commission or other licensing agency of each county shall deny the renewal of certain current liquor licenses upon receipt of sufficient protests.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB55

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Beginning 1/1/2027, requires all state agencies to make the full text of their rules available on the website of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in a digitally accessible and searchable format that meets or exceeds certain federal standards. Effective 1/1/2525. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB94

Introduced
1/15/25  
Increases the mandatory minimum jail sentence for a first conviction of knowingly or intentionally violating a temporary restraining order from forty-eight to seventy-two hours. Requires mandatory mental health counseling for a first conviction of knowingly or intentionally violating a temporary restraining order.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB64

Introduced
1/15/25  
Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires each public school in the State, including charter schools, to employ, or retain under contract, at least 1 mental health professional for every 250 students enrolled, subject to certain conditions. Requires the Department of Education to submit a progress report to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2026. Appropriates moneys for the Department of Education to contract for mental health professionals and to establish an unspecified number of fulltime equivalent mental health professional positions within the Department of Education. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB62

Introduced
1/15/25  
Restricts the sale of liquor under temporary liquor licenses to confined and demarcated spaces not located on public streets, roads, sidewalks, or pedestrian walkways. Applies restrictions to temporary liquor licenses granted to nonprofit organizations.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB109

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and meets certain criteria. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)